The Life of David Gale

[while drunk] Socrates was ugly, Plato was fat, and, um, and Aristotle was a prissy dresser!

Death is a gift.

[Giving a lecture to his college students] Fantasies have to be unrealistic. Because the minute- the second- that you get what you want, you don't- you can't- want it anymore.

Hate's no fun if you keep it to yourself.

Constance Harraway: You work so hard not to be seen as a sex object. Before long, you're not seen at all.

This is what Pascal means when he says that we are only truly happy when daydreaming about future happiness.

Braxton Belyeu: I'm no more afraid of the Grim Reaper than I am of a Presbyterian on Mother's Day.

Of course he sympathizes with murderers... he is one!